There is obviously a substantial consensus in public discourse that the country’s protracted crisis of underdevelopment since independence is partly a function of the inefficacy, ineffectiveness and ...

On Local Government provides local elected officials and community leaders with timely information and resources about the local government revenue system, legislative changes, the state budget and ...

The financial sustainability of local governments is a central concern in public finance, entailing the capacity of municipalities and other sub-national entities to manage revenues, expenditures and ...

We study how changes in the composition of Chinese local government debt influenced bank risk taking, credit allocation, and local productivity. Using confidential loan-level data and a ...

In 1980, the price of oil hit an all-time high of just below $40 per barrel, and Houston was riding high. Harris County's population increased by almost 50 percent between 1970 and 1980. There was ...

Nothing says small town New England like the town meeting. Derived from English village and Puritan church assemblies, the town meeting/board of selectmen structure is the oldest form of civic ...

Constitutional arrangements such as federalism or unitary states or forms of government such as parliamentary or presidential systems or hybrid governmental systems are made for man and not vice versa ...